When a new case lands, the first 15 minutes matter more than most attorneys realize. Before formal assignment, before strategy sessions, before anyone has read the full complaint, there’s a window. The party that uses it well enters the case…
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At a breakfast Legal IT Insider hosted with Litera this month, one theme came through clearly: as generative AI reshapes legal services, client relationships are – or should be – becoming more data-driven and more intentional.
The discussion, generously hosted by Milbank in Hudson Yards, explored a tension or perhaps double-edged sword that many law firms are now grappling with.
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Hunter Jackson, chief knowledge officer at McDermott Will & Schulte, which won the Legalweek Leaders in Tech Law Award for Litigation Technology and Innovation, discusses how AI will require technologists, lawyers and data experts to work closer together.
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William Gaus, chief knowledge management and innovation officer at Troutman Pepper Locke, which won the Legalweek Leaders in Tech Law Award for Innovations in Knowledge Management, talks about how legal tech tools need to put more emphasis on user experience and integration, and better align with how lawyers think.
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Grant Cleveland, chief technology officer at Cleveland & Co, which won the Legalweek Leaders in Tech Law Award for Most Innovative Law Firm/Client Tech Collaboration, talks about the need for legal tech tools to have shared client-firm interfaces, analytics and visibility.
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From : Blog Entry >> Helen’s Blog EntryEmail 2.0: How AI Is Turning the Legal Inbox into a Productivity Engine Email: The Invisible Engine behind Legal Work In every law firm, whether a boutique practice or a global enterprise; work is propelled by email. Client instructions arrive by email. Draft agreements circulate over email. Negotiations unfold across long, branching…
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(See Day Two Coverage for the In-House Programs over on The Geek in Review Substack page – GL)Day One of Texas Trailblazers in Dallas had a different tone than most legal tech conferences I attend. The conversations stayed close to the work. Less speculation, more discussion about what people are doing right now, where it is working, and where…
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Bundledocs earlier this month announced the launch of Review – a new platform to help legal teams collaborate in real time, representing a major expansion into areas including litigation/case management.  
Previously used just at the document preparation stage (hence the name), the new release sees Bundledocs shift into review, editing, and collaboration. While Bundledocs doesn’t focus exclusively on bundles for court and is used by transactional teams too, within a litigation context, it is now entering territory currently held by…
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AI That Listens Like a Lawyer:  Courts Are Exposing the Gap Between What AI Notetakers Promise and What Their Contracts Permit. Purpose-Built Legal Conversational Intelligence™ Tools, Such as Querious®, Offer Attorneys a Defensible Path Forward. A gap exists between how general-purpose AI notetakers are marketed to legal professionals and what their terms of service permit. […]
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The halls of the Special Competitive Studies Project (SCSP) AI+Education conference in Washington, DC, were buzzing with a distinct mix of urgency and optimism. Nowhere was this more palpable than during the fireside chat with Sal Khan, the founder of Khan Academy. As a technologist, watching Khan’s evolution from producing simple YouTube math videos to deploying sophisticated AI tutors…
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